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i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

JEaccelerate — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:00:47 GMT

I have found the binary Allegro design files for the i.MX8M Plus eval board (LAY-46370_B.brd), but I am unable to import these files into Altium. Could I have access to the ASCII Altium importable version (*.alg)?

Re: i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

Manuel_Salas — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:36:49 GMT

Hello @JEaccelerate

NXP only provides the Allegro files, you can try converting the allegro files to an Altium files.

Best regards.

Salas.

Re: i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

JEaccelerate — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:40:10 GMT

The only way to convert into Altium files is with the ASCII (.alg) Allegro file, which is created in Allegro (using Cadence's extracta.exe utility). I do not have Allegro, so I am unable to perform this conversion myself. I've seen threads similar to this on other product lines where tech support was able to email out the .alg version. I would appreciate the same being done for this layout (LAY-46370_B.brd).

Re: i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

Manuel_Salas — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:50:28 GMT

Hello @JEaccelerate

Yes, I sent you the .alg file directly.

Best regards.

Salas.

Re: i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

JEaccelerate — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:10:15 GMT

Thank you for your help, though I think something went wrong with this.

The import didn't work and it looks like the file size is much too small (1kB). From the file name I think the wrong file may have been converted. I believe the file that needs to be converted with extracta.exe is "LAY-46370_B.brd" This brd file is 22.6MB so I imagine the resulting .alg file will be on the order of 10s of MB (if not 100s of MB).

Re: i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

JEaccelerate — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:16:14 GMT

Alejandro,

Have you had a chance to look into this?

Re: i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

Manuel_Salas — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:54:20 GMT

Hello @JEaccelerate

Yes, I sent you again the correct one.

Best regards.

Salas.

Re: i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

JEaccelerate — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:55:14 GMT

It worked perfectly. Thank you!

Re: i.MX8M Plus Eval Board Altium Design Files?

sholland96 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:11:36 GMT

Can you please share the .alg file with me as well?